So had my first crash of my trex 700. Not sure what happened but I had a HUGE voltage drop from 46v down to 9V then back up to 46V. I think I got bit by CC quality control. The ESC basically rebooted in flight. I was doing tic-toks then did a simple flip to inverted. While hovering inverted about 15 ft off the ground the motor cut out on me. I was able to flip upright which pretty much robbed me of any head speed. So the landing was kind of a controlled crash. I tried to auto down but really wasn't high enough up to gain any head speed. Did the best I could and brought it down hard.
All things considered I think I got pretty lucky. I only broke my landing gear and cracked my canopy a little bit. So cost me $6 to fix and some shoe goo on the canopy and I tossed it right back in the air. I only hovered it 5 feet off the ground and did some light piroing to see if anything else was damaged. Ripped the ESC off and sent it back to CC to see what's wrong with it.
This was a brand new CC 160HV
I don't mind crashing when it's my fault. But I was seriously PO when it's nothing I did to cause the failure.
All things considered I think I got pretty lucky. I only broke my landing gear and cracked my canopy a little bit. So cost me $6 to fix and some shoe goo on the canopy and I tossed it right back in the air. I only hovered it 5 feet off the ground and did some light piroing to see if anything else was damaged. Ripped the ESC off and sent it back to CC to see what's wrong with it.
This was a brand new CC 160HV
I don't mind crashing when it's my fault. But I was seriously PO when it's nothing I did to cause the failure.
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